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Creative Data Solutions (CDS) is a Vanderbilt Shared Resource and has extensive experience in providing effective and robust solutions to challenges pertaining to research data using modern informatics and bioinformatics approaches.

Applications from members of the academic community
at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, University of Washington,
Seattle or Duke University or other institutions with relevant
expertise to strengthen the overall mission of the Center, will be
accepted in response to an RFA to be issued along our regular
timeline, in January 2012. The RFA announcing the
availability of Pilot and Feasibility Project funds, and detailing
eligibility and application process will be disseminated through
the Grant’s Management offices in these institutions, and broadcast
to the faculty by e-mail, and posted on our Vanderbilt Kidney
Disease Centers Web site. Guidelines for formatting for
submitting Pilot and Feasibility Project applications will follow
the same guidelines as for the initial application, with have a 5
page limit for science and the standard format of specific aims,
innovation, significance, research strategy, vertebrate animals and
human subject sections as appropriate and references. The
budgets will be up to $50,000 direct costs per year, with a maximum
of 2 years funding. Eligibility will be for those established
investigators embarking on a new area of investigation, or for
junior investigators at the beginning timepoint of their
careers.